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Atom feeds uses typed IRI links to represent
information / metadata that is of interest to the
consumers (software, in the main) of feeds. For instance,
the edit link relation attached to an atom:entry element
points to the IRI to use to update/edit it.

The Atom standard encourages that such typed links to
be registered with IANA if they have wider applicability,
and the LinkRelation data type encodes the currently
registered link types (derived from:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations.html
on 2007-10-28]